Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember that you can not be sure whether you or someone else has the virus just by guessing or by appearances . |
| 2 | There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus , although now I think I have killed this feeling . |
| 3 | So if we make a list of what we 've got when you have a video night , if you or , or somebody else has the video list , you can say , well if you bring them back |
| 4 | Paula spent most of her free time alone , window shopping , visiting News Theatres , where she sometimes watched the programme of cartoons twice round , and drinking endless cups of Espresso coffee in cafés and coffee houses . |
| 5 | It was the clipping and runnering where you almost heard the gear moan . |
| 6 | Be very careful if offered fish as a ‘ pair ’ unless you have actually seen them breed and raise young , or you personally know the seller . |
| 7 | The fact that it managed to do so stands out with a clarity so insistent that each individual ruler — including Mary Queen of Scots — must be assessed by the extent to which he or she successfully fostered the self-perception that the Scots were a people who mattered . |
| 8 | ‘ All we do know , ’ he concluded , ‘ is that the assassin must have been a member of the community at the Tower who knew Sir Ralph had changed his bed chamber , and he or she either committed the murder or hired a professional assassin to do it for them . ’ |
| 9 | Each panel member should ensure that he or she thoroughly tests the case presented for project approval . |
| 10 | Given that the theist believes that defining God involves thinking beyond the limits of thought , can he or she also fulfil the demand that a clear explanation be given of what is meant by the word ‘ God ’ ? |
| 11 | If you have an entertainer , this is not likely to happen , unless you explain that you do not mind if he or she just lets the party run on its own for a while . |
| 12 | If your child is under 16 , he or she still has the right to consent to or refuse an HIV test if the doctor feels he or she has sufficient maturity and understanding . |
| 13 | By far the most effective arrangements presently available are those which : ( 1 ) provide for the continuing partners to have the option to acquire the share in the firm of an outgoing partner ( which overcomes the tax problems noted in Chapter 10 and offers some desirable freedom of manoeuvre to the continuing partners without ordinarily causing any disadvantage to the outgoing partner ) ; ( 2 ) finance the purchase of the share of a partner who dies before retirement by way of insurance effected on the lives of each of the partners the proceeds of which are declared to be held on trust for the partners for the time being ; ( 3 ) finance by endowment insurance the purchase of the shares of partners whose retirement can be predicted ; ( 4 ) ensure that in any case which is not or can not be sufficiently covered by available insurance ( eg payments to a partner who is expelled or who otherwise leaves the firm before normal retirement date ) payment of any capital sum is spread over a period so to reduce the burden on the continuing partners without imposing any great hardship on the outgoing partner or his estate ; and ( 5 ) impose on each partner an obligation ( Clause 14.02 ) to take out adequate ( as discussed with all the partners from time to time ) retirement provision for the benefit of himself and his familyso as not to impose any burden in that respect on the firm , which in former times would have accepted responsibility . |
| 14 | In particular , he could say that it is not for the Conservative Party or anybody else to determine the budget options of Parliament . |
| 15 | The situation was more complicated , due to the fact that certain city officials with vested interests in the tannery operation had given the tannery written permission to send their chemical waste to the city sewage treatment plant , and were openly hostile to attempts by the YCCC or anybody else to raise the subject as a local government issue . |
| 16 | She went to Morrocco with Roger 's wife Elizabeth where they eventually found the body . |
| 17 | That became a famous story , where they almost cancelled the record because they thought the Manson Family were after them or something ! |
| 18 | And , as we shall see , even where they directly contradict the evidence of the senses , false beliefs may yet continue unabashed and display a quite remarkable resilience . |
| 19 | Reality Therapy involves confronting the sufferer with the reality of life as perceived by others and helping him or her gradually to change the perception of how life should be so that it comes nearer to how life actually is . |
| 20 | " Or they maybe knocked the horn buds on the sides of the bucket . |
| 21 | ‘ His idea of taking a leading role now is to hide behind the Danes or anyone else to hide the split in his own party , ’ Mr Major said . |
| 22 | Wallace alos missed an absolute sitter when Dorigo came storming through ( maybe should have gome alone ) pushed the ball to Wallce 8yds out where he simply missed the ball . |
| 23 | Dryden spent his £13,000 redundancy money on the plot of land where he illegally built the bungalow . |
| 24 | This is noticeably similar to scene one where he repeatedly violates the maxim of quantity to avoid admitting that he knows nothing about Chetwyn : In both scenes , Anderson attempts to avoid divulging information which could compromise his academic credibility . |
| 25 | She burst into tears and Morse walked diffidently over to the settee , where he temporarily displaced the teddy-bear , put his right arm along her shoulder , and held her to him as she sobbed away the storm . |
| 26 | Joseph Terence Anthony Burke was born on July 14 1913 and educated at Ealing Priory School and King 's College , London , where he subsequently taught the history of art before becoming assistant keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1938 . |
| 27 | Hot air is circulated at a high velocity in the cooking cabinet where it instantly envelopes the food and seals the meat so that it remains juicy . |
| 28 | NGF is normally taken up at nerve terminals and transported along the nerve fibres to the cell body , where it presumably regulates the amount of peptide . |
| 29 | His black curly hair looked crisp and shiningly clean , clinging close to the classic shape of his head , longer over a high , intelligent-looking forehead , and at the nape of his neck , where it just brushed the collar of his shirt . |
| 30 | He now had to think of a decisive way of finishing what he had tentatively started or he too ran the risk of losing face . |